Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 1

Price Realized: $ 1,592
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(ANESTHESIA.) Group of 8 volumes. 8vo, various bindings, condition varies. Vp, 1847-71

Additional Details

first editions, except for Toucey. Fulton & Stanton V.8, V.11, V.12, III.28, IV.66, III.20, III.23, VIII.6. See also lot 134.
Gay. A Statement of the Claims of Charles T. Jackson, M.D., to the Discovery of the Applicability of Sulphuric Ether to the Prevention of Pain in Surgical Operations. 29, [3], xviii pages. 1847 Lord & Lord. A Defence of Dr. Charles T. Jackson's Claims to the Discovery of Etherization. [2], 37 pages. Backstrip imperfect. 1848 Lord & Lord. Memorial addressed to the Trustees of the Massachusetts General Hospital, in Behalf of Charles T. Jackson, M.D., in Relation to the Discovery of Etherization. 27 pages. 1849 [Toucey.] Discovery by the late Dr. Horace Wells, of the Applicability of Nitrous Oxyd Gas, Sulphuric Ether and Other Vapors in Surgical Operations, nearly Two Years before the Patented Discovery of Drs. Charles T. Jackson and W. T. G. Morton. 40 pages. Lacks rear wrapper. Second edition of a pamphlet first published the same year. 1852 Rice. Trials of a Public Benefactor, as illustrated in the Discovery of Etherization. Second issue. Lacks the 3 plates. 1859 Smith. An Examination of the Question of Anaesthesia, arising on the Memorial of Charles Thomas Wells, presented to the United States Senate, Second Session Thirty-second Congress. Publisher's slip bound before title. viii, 154 pages. Rebacked; lacks front free endpaper. 1859 Smith. An Inquiry into the Origin of Modern Anaesthesia. Frontispiece portrait of Horace Wells. 165 pages. 1867 Squibb. Anaesthetics. 30 pages. 1871.